1. [Diagnosis and causes of death in diabetes mellitus].
- Author
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Kovalenko VL and Podobed OV
- Subjects
- Adult, Cerebrovascular Disorders diagnosis, Cerebrovascular Disorders etiology, Cerebrovascular Disorders mortality, Coronary Disease diagnosis, Coronary Disease etiology, Coronary Disease mortality, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Peripheral Vascular Diseases etiology, Peripheral Vascular Diseases mortality, Peripheral Vascular Diseases pathology, Autopsy methods, Autopsy standards, Cause of Death, Diabetes Complications diagnosis, Diabetes Complications mortality, Diabetes Complications pathology, Diabetes Mellitus diagnosis, Diabetes Mellitus mortality, Diabetes Mellitus pathology
- Abstract
In the pandemic of diabetes mellitus (DM), there is no unified approach to making the final clinical and postmortem diagnoses of deaths caused by coronary heart disease (CHD), cerebrovascular diseases (CVD), and some other vascular catastrophes. The acute and chronic forms of CHD and CVD and acute and chronic ischemic lesions in other vascular basins, which result in death in DM, should be regard as its complications. Moreover, DM is a peripheral vascular disease.
- Published
- 2012